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Wintergreen Resort, Virginia: Worth it to ride tomorrow?

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#1 ·
So...

I haven't been to Wintergreen before but just like any east coast resort, it's probably pretty tiny. But there's the possibility of 6-10'' of snow falling tonight and I'm trying to decide whether or not it's worth the 3 hour drive to ride all day tomorrow. The recent mild heat spike that happened just this past 2 weeks or so along the east coast really hit them hard and as of today, they only have 3 lifts running to service 6 trails. 3 hours is definitely not worth the trip for such a small selection of trails, but i'm wondering if they'll open up a bunch more tomorrow given the possible snowfall tonight.

Problem is, I have to make the decision to drive over there tonight prior to knowing for sure what the slope report is going to look like tomororw. What do you think? Think it's worth the gamble?
 
#3 ·
I was actually at 7 springs last week. I'm in Maryland and a drive to 7 springs for me is would be about 5 hours. Also, the storm that's carrying the snow isn't expected to hit that area as hard and the conditions at 7 springs last weekend were really terrible.
 
#11 ·
Well, 7 Springs was planned a couple months ago to meet with friends who have a ride-in/out lodge so I made the trek up there anyway. Snowshoe is probably about 5.5 hours from where I am right now. The advantage with wintergreen is that my gf is in Charlottesville which is only an hour away. It's just more convenient. Maybe I should call wintergreen and see if they have any guesses of what'll be open tomorrow.
 
#12 ·
I would say go for it. They are ramping up in preparation for great weekend conditions. The Highlands/ Big Acorn were previously opened before the warm temps so with tonights snow plus snowmaking should allow them to open almost everything tomorrow.
New improvements to their snowmaking system has allowed them to blow the entire resort in a short time.
 
#14 ·
@stuttering stan

i'm assuming you've been to wintergreen before. you really think they'll open up most of the trails. they only have 6 open today, somehow i don't think they're going to get enough coverage to open up even half of their trails even with improved snowmaking technology. or i'm just really underestimating what that technology is capable of nowadays.

any opinions of wintergreen in general? i've been to snowshoe which is decent, but i'm assuming wintergreen is about half that size.
 
#15 ·
I was at WG in early January. They were mostly open and blowing the closed trails at that time.
They only have 6 open today for a few reasons 1. They are expecting a light crowd today so they opened the minimum. 2. They will blow the closed trails day and night to recover from the warm days. 3. To prepare for the holiday weekend by blowing as much as they can.
Snowmaking combined with tonight's natural snow will make for great conditions tomorrow and into the weekend.
I think you are underestimating their new capabilities. The new water tank cuts in half the time needed to cover the mountain.
Here's my honest opinion of WG- it's a good intermediate mountain. It's facilitities are somewhat dated. There are a handful of fun blue/ black trails.
WG gives good value for the ticket prices.

WG is about 1/2 the size of Snowshoe. You get what you pay for. If you think Snowhoe was decent, then WG may be somewhat depressing for you. But, it is all we have around here so make the best of it.
 
#21 ·
@onel0wcubn - thanks for the invite. probably won't make it up there this weekend but if i change my mind i'll let you know.

@TMXMOTORSPORTS - well, if i don't go to wintergreen to ride she'll be coming over here to visit. so i can take care of the second part without having to make a roundtrip drive of 6 hours. :thumbsup:
 
#24 ·
Nope, I didn't end up going that weekend. I stayed at home and was super lazy.

I do plan on going this Saturday though. It's been super cold and they've been blowing snow all week. I expect pretty decent conditions and I'd rather ride somewhere than nowhere!
 
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